Re: Bug#765522: ITP: elixir -- Functional language for the Erlang VM

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist On Jo, 16 oct 14, 00:12:10, Evgeny Golyshev wrote: Package: wnppSeverine: wishlist Owner: Evgeny Golyshev euguli...@gmail.com * Package name : elixir * Version : 1.0.1 * Upstream Author : José Valim

Re: Bug#765336: RFP: black-hole-solver - Solver (C API + CLI program) for Black Hole Solitaire and All in a Row Solitaire

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Ma, 14 oct 14, 12:04:36, Shlomi Fish wrote: Package: black-hole-solver Severity: wishlist The Black Hole Solitaire Solver - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/black-hole-solitaire-solver/ - is a solver for Black Hole card Solitaire and All in a Row

Re: Bug#764890: ITP: dk-filter - DomainKeys for Sendmail/SMTP (RFC-4870)

2014-10-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: owner -1 Carlos Gili cg...@goliath-la.com On Sb, 11 oct 14, 17:46:50, Carlos Gili wrote: Package: dk-filter Priority: whishlist Section: mail Original-Maintainer: Mike Markley m...@markley.org Description: DomainKeys for Sendmail/SMTP Implements a

Re: Bug#764549: ITP: siril -- Astronomical image processing tool

2014-10-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: owner -1 debian-si...@free-astro.vinvin.tf On Jo, 09 oct 14, 01:22:57, debian-si...@free-astro.vinvin.tf wrote: Package: siril Version: 0.9.0b Severity: wishlist * Package name: siril Version : 0.9.0b Upstream author : Vincent Hourdin

Re: Bug#759212: ITP: bdreader -- An e-comics reader

2014-08-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 ITP: bdreader -- An e-comics reader On Lu, 25 aug 14, 21:24:30, Vincent wrote: Package: bdreader Version: 1.02-1 Severity: wishlist * Package name : bdreader Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Vincent Crocher kenn...@users.sf.net * URL :

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 aug 14, 19:38:47, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I do: I see a reason to netinst a 0.629xCD size desktop install rather than a 0.829xCD size desktop when bandwidth is costly. Yes, but if you netinst you can *pick* your

Re: Bug#756446: ITP Backgammon2 - a C# implementation of Backgammon game

2014-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 ITP: backgammon2 -- another implementation of the Backgammon game On Ma, 29 iul 14, 23:47:58, Andrzej Skalski wrote: Severity: wishlist Package: Backgammon2 https://github.com/askalski/Backgammon2 I am the only author of this code, I released

Re: can't submit bugs

2014-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iul 14, 07:17:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: Hello, whenever I try to send a bug with reportbug to sub...@bugs.debian.org, I get a failure notification 550 malware detected: Sanesecurity.Junk.3451.UNOFFICIAL: message rejected So, I can't open bugs. I don't know who is in

Re: How Debian should handle users requests?

2014-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 iul 14, 13:26:30, Ian Jackson wrote: Arto Jantunen writes (Re: How Debian should handle users requests?): I don't think reportbug should allow filing bugs against general at all. The extremely rare cases when one is needed can be filed manually. Indeed. If the user tries to do

Re: Bug#755860: RFP: mrrescue -- Fully FLOSS retro-inspired platformer

2014-07-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 24 iul 14, 01:11:53, J. Vitorino wrote: Package: mrrescue Severity: wishlist I found this fully FLOSS game named Mr Rescue. It's a retro inspired platformer featuring randomly generated levels in which the player controls a fireman attempting to save

Re: Bug#755285: marked as done (general: Black screen on resume after suspend)

2014-07-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 21 iul 14, 08:16:54, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: Considering the language is English, it would be a pity if the reader made this mistake. Let's assume a modicum of 'common sense' at least. With an international project like Debian, we

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 17 iul 14, 03:17:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2014-07-16 14:28:00 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I do that too. I haven't seen any official documentation saying that this is a bad thing to do. aptitude

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting [was: How to avoid stealth installation...]

2014-07-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 iul 14, 00:24:44, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. I'd appreciate an explanation too. I've inserted in my apt/preferences file the incantation given by Vitali F. (to whom thanks) at the very beginning of this thread, and it

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iun 14, 01:56:20, Thomas Goirand wrote: You're not seriously suggesting dpkg would sneak a package on your system behind your back, do you? I believe he's only suggesting that having a package installed with a Conflict: is harder to break (even by mistake) than just some apt

Re: virtual machine from USB stick (virt-manager qemu/kvm)

2014-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 iul 14, 09:34:58, Eugene Zhukov wrote: Hello, I know this question probably doesn't belong to this list, and I tried debian-user@ first, but didn't get a single response. I'm trying to create a VM with Windows 7. Is there a way to do that from USB stick? It is a ~10GB corporate

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 iul 14, 15:57:41, Neil Williams wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:26:53 +0400 vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: I think you can just put Package: systemd Pin: origin Pin-Priority: -1 If what you actually intend is to retain sysvinit-core, it would need to be systemd-sysv Most

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrei POPESCU dixit: Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master of all packages :p Wrong: • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system (well, not necessarily, anyway) You're not seriously

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iun 14, 14:33:49, Wookey wrote: Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from a separate repo should not be necessary. No need

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 10:56:24, Svante Signell wrote: The disadvantage with this approach is that you need an entry for every package you don't want installed. No, you want to make use of the support for globs or regexes, see apt_preferences(5). systemd-must-die_8_all.deb already conflicts

Re: thanks messages on mailing lists/bug reports

2014-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 27 iun 14, 15:45:21, Sven Bartscher wrote: Greetings everyone, I recently started contributing to debian. Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally through the internet was on Stack Exchange. On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking people

Re: Bug#751548: RFP: ntk -- Non Tool Kit (NTK)

2014-06-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Sb, 14 iun 14, 00:37:25, Jeffrey Cliff wrote: Package: ntk Severity: wishlist * The Non Tool Kit (NTK) is a fork of the Fast Light ToolKit library, adding improved graphics rendering via Cairo, a streamlined and enhanced widget set, and other features designed

Re: Bug#751031: RFP: maxemumtvguide -- Maxemum TV-Guide, a Qt5 based TV-Guide

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist On Lu, 09 iun 14, 19:50:27, Robert Maxe wrote: Package: maxemumtvguide Severity: /wishlist/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtvg/files/mtvg/14.0.0/ License: GPLv3 Maxemum TV-Guide is a Qt5 based TV-Guide. It is developed in

Re: Bug#750817: ITP: x265 -- x265 HEVC Encoder

2014-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Sb, 07 iun 14, 08:47:41, Rico Tzschichholz wrote: Package: x265 Severity: wishlist Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: x265 URL : https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/wiki/Home License : GPL2, BSD Description :

Re: so, systemd now and teh world still turns...

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 05 iun 14, 01:13:23, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi Svante, The official source of it is here: http://users.unixforge.de/~tglaser/debs/dists/etch/wtf/Pkgs/mirabilos-support/ That was announced in this thread (which you started!) :

Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes (Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)): Last time someone (Bcc'd) tried to tackle these (admittedly without contacting the maintainer in advance) the contributor was prevented

Re: Bug#706336: RFP: wmfs2 -- tiling window manager

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:24:49, Anti Thesis wrote: Package: wmfs2 Severity: wishlist WMFS2 is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. wmfs2 is a free software distributed under the BSD license. it can be drive from keyboard or

Re: Bug#706338: RFP: dictator -- Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) text file reading

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:27:34, Anti Thesis wrote: Package: dictator Severity: wishlist Dictator is a program for on-screen reading of text files, developed with the intention of making it easier to read some of the fine electronic texts available on the net, such

Re: Bug#706342: RFP: alopex -- tiling window manager

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:33:32, Anti Thesis wrote: Package: alopex Severity: wishlist Alopex is a tiling, tagging, window manager with status bar tabs. License: GNU GPL URL: https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/alopex Alternative URL:

Re: Bug#720394: RFP: lxc-docker -- create lightweight, protable, self-sufficient containers

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: lxc-docker -- create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers On Mi, 21 aug 13, 13:44:53, Johannes Graumann wrote: Package: lxc-docker Version: 0.5.3-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, As per http://www.docker.io/: Docker is an

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 mai 14, 18:56:24, Holger Levsen wrote: Having these bugs rott in a corner of the BTS almost nobody ever looks at is a disservice to our users. IMO there should be 0 bugs open against https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint= To also bring some numbers to this: $

Re: Bug#747612: RFP: manokwari -- a desktop shell for GNOME 3

2014-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: manokwari -- a desktop shell for GNOME 3 On Sb, 10 mai 14, 18:05:32, Rahman Yusri Aftian wrote: Package: manokwari Version: 0.2.1.37 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Manokwari is a desktop shell for GNOME 3. It features combined Gtk+

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 apr 14, 11:06:27, Rowan Thorpe wrote: On 10:57 Thu 24 Apr 2014, Paul Wise wrote: ..[snip].. https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening/Goals Regarding the line (at that page): Refuse to install packages that are known to have X number of unplugged exploits (i.e. X number of open

Re: Bug#745399: RFP: mailpile -- encryption-centered webmail client

2014-04-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Lu, 21 apr 14, 12:27:58, Emil Tullstedt wrote: Package: mailpile Severity: wishlist Mailpile (https://www.mailpile.is/) is a modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features. Mailpile is built to be run from either localhost or a

Re: Bug#745087: guake-indicator: ITP: guake-indicator -- An indicator that lets you manage your ssh host with Guake

2014-04-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 17 apr 14, 23:20:24, Alessio Garzi wrote: Package: guake-indicator Version: 0.1-0~35~ubuntu13.10.1 Severity: wishlist Guake-indicator is a C software application designed for Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04 with Unity that lets you manage your favorite ssh hosts

Re: Bug#744119: RFP: libonion -- lightweight and easy to use HTTP server library

2014-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: libonion -- lightweight and easy to use HTTP server library On Jo, 10 apr 14, 14:07:07, David Moreno Montero wrote: Package: libonion, libonion-dev, libonion-tools, libonion-examples Severity: wishlist I'm the developer of libonion, a C

Bug#744040: RFP: libbdplus -- research project to implement the BD+ System Specifications

2014-04-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassing -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 RFP: libbdplus -- research project to implement the BD+ System Specifications On Mi, 09 apr 14, 16:10:47, HacKurx wrote: Package: libbdplus Version: 0.1.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, libbdplus is a

Re: Bug#743669: ITP - gedraa-dsh - Data mine Internet catalogs to find double starts candidates double starts candidates

2014-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist On Vi, 04 apr 14, 19:36:25, Victor Di Rienzo wrote: Package: gedraa-dsh Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: Sicence Maintainer: Victor Di Rienzo vdirie...@gmail.com Version: 1.0.0 Depends: default-jre

Re: Bug#743723: ITP - gedraa-duplex - double star observers a tool to make easier a basic astrophysical analysis of both components of a given pair.

2014-04-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sb, 05 apr 14, 12:49:40, Victor Di Rienzo wrote: Package: gedraa-duplex Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: Sicence Maintainer: Victor Di Rienzo vdirie...@gmail.com Version: 1.5.0 Depends: default-jre

Re: Bug#743656: ITP: memoizable -- A gem that offers Memoization is an optimization that saves the return value of a method so it doesn't need to be re-computed every time that method is called.

2014-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Vi, 04 apr 14, 23:25:42, Danial Jose wrote: package: memoizable Severity: wishlist Owner: 'Danial José' danialj...@gmail.com *Package Name : memoizable Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Dan Kubb, Erik Michaels-Ober (Author name/s of the Gem). *URL :

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 mar 14, 17:39:39, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Alternatively, we could make NetworkManager the default. It is already here, it works, and it doesn’t have such problems. Or systemd-networkd. Or connman. Kind regards, Andrei --

FW: Re: Bug#742729: ITP: gstreamer-sharp-1.0 -- new revamped GStreamer CLI bindings that target gstreamer-1.x

2014-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
- Forwarded message from Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com - Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:16:51 +0200 From: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com To: Andrés G. Aragoneses kno...@gmail.com, 742...@bugs.debian.org Cc: debian-de...@packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#742729: ITP

Re: Bug#742509: RFP: Variety -- beautiful wallpaper changing program

2014-03-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Lu, 24 mar 14, 10:59:31, Israel wrote: Package: variety Severity: wishlist Variety changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images. Variety changes the desktop wallpaper on a regular basis, using

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

2014-03-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 mar 14, 17:03:00, brian m. carlson wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: And while we are at it, do we *really* need the information about /bin/sh in at least a significant share of today's bug reports? You probably want it, because a decent number

Re: Bug#742223: ITP: dlang-libevent - D bindings for libevent library

2014-03-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 20 mar 14, 23:19:48, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Package: dlang-libevent Version: 2.0.16-1 Severity: Wishlist I've decided to improve the D language support in Debian, and as part of that process, I intend to package several D bindings for common

Re: Bug#739762: RFP: umtsmon -- graphical program for connecting cellphones or gsm-modems to the internet

2014-02-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: umtsmon -- graphical program for connecting cellphones or gsm-modems to the internet On Sb, 22 feb 14, 12:36:02, Hans wrote: Package: umtsmon Version: 0.9 Dear maintainers, I found this nice programm, which allows easy connection of

Re: Bug#739307: ITP : ngp -- ncurses code parsing tool

2014-02-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Lu, 17 feb 14, 17:22:44, Jonathan Klee wrote: Package: ngp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ngp Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jonathan Klee * URL : https://github.com/jonathanklee/ngp * License : GPL * Description

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 14, 19:02:00, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:25:14 -0500 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: If they have decided on systemd as default [...] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg5.html Can we please end this thread? Sure but perhaps

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 feb 14, 00:31:18, Clint Byrum wrote: Leaving most things to just use the sysvinit compatibility layer means not realizing one of the more important benefits of the default init system if it should in fact turn out to be systemd. So at best you're talking about maintaining two for

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 feb 14, 06:49:56, Svante Signell wrote: On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 20:53 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: So, perhaps if we teach Upstart and OpenRC to read systemd unit files, and they all can be expected to behave similarly, this will work out. Otherwise, giving everyone a choice just

Re: Virtual fizmo package

2014-02-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 feb 14, 19:22:06, Christoph Ender wrote: I’m currently thinking about creating a virtual package for fizmo. This was a single package in squeeze, got split up into fizmo-ncursesw and fizmo-console in wheezy, keeping a transitional fizmo package in oldlibs (which pulled in

Re: Bug#735619: RFP: chaiscript -- Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++

2014-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist On Jo, 16 ian 14, 19:15:08, Jeffrey Cliff wrote: Package: chaiscript Severity: RFP Website: http://www.chaiscript.com/ Github: https://github.com/ChaiScript/ChaiScript : Description: ChaiScript is one of the only embedded scripting

Re: mupdf (Was: xpdf removed from testing?)

2014-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 ian 14, 08:50:29, Andreas Tille wrote: window. Not sure whether this is a bug or a feature - but for presentations ist seems I need to stick to evince. Check out pdf-presenter-console or zathura (if you you don't mind the vim-style interface). Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: Bug#733912: RFP: s6 - a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision

2014-01-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 02 ian 14, 06:24:40, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote: Package: s6 Version: 1.1.1 Severity: wishlist Please pack s6[0], a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and runit.

Re: Bug#732622: snp-sites: ITP First time debian snp-sites package

2013-12-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 19 dec 13, 12:47:52, Jorge Soares wrote: Package: snp-sites Version: 1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I would like to regiater my intent to package the software snp-sites -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers

Re: Bug#731410: RFP: libapache2-mod-cluster -- mod_cluster is an intelligent Apache httpd-based load-balancer

2013-12-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 05 dec 13, 09:26:25, Dominik Pieper wrote: Package: libapache2-mod-cluster Severity: *wishlist* URL: https://www.jboss.org/mod_cluster License: LGPL Description: mod_cluster is an httpd-based load balancer. Like mod_jk and mod_proxy, mod_cluster uses a

Re: Bug#731282: ITP: diylc -- electronic circuit designer for stripboards

2013-12-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 ITP: diylc -- electronic circuit designer for stripboards Control: owner -1 chrisofbris...@gmail.com On Ma, 03 dec 13, 22:41:24, ChrisofBristol (gmail) wrote: Package: DIY Layout Creator Version: 3.28.0 *The licence the package is provided

Re: Bug#729595: expect-lite: Please add expect-lite package to Squeeze Wheezy

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 ITP: expect-lite -- easy to use version of expect Control: owner -1 Craig Miller cvmil...@gmail.com On Jo, 14 nov 13, 12:39:04, Craig Miller wrote: Package: expect-lite Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Please add expect-lite package to

Re: Bug#728776: RFP: f-irc -- an irc-client for the console/terminal

2013-11-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Ma, 05 nov 13, 13:41:00, Folkert van Heusden (Hackerspace Gouda) wrote: Package: f-irc Subject: RFP: f-irc -- an irc-client for the console/terminal Please note that RFP bugs should be filed against the wnpp pseudo-package (I already took care of this one).

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 oct 13, 16:40:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I feel. Let's change the

Re: Bug#725069: ITP: libscion -- dataflow programming library

2013-10-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Lu, 30 sep 13, 22:41:44, William Morriss wrote: Package: libscion Severity: wishlist Library for concurrent dataflow programming that uses stream broadcasts for inter-thread communication. libscion is especially useful in linking modular work in asynchronous

Re: Bug#724893: ITP: libjs-leaflet-awesome-markers -- plugin for Leaflet to make awesome markers

2013-09-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 29 sep 13, 08:30:28, Muhammad Firdaus wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: firdausko...@gmail.com * Package name : libjs-leaflet-awesome-markers Version : 0.6.4 Upstream Author : Lennard Voogdt lvoo...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: Bug#723640: ITP: vlc-plugin-vlsub -- VLC extension to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org

2013-09-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Mi, 18 sep 13, 13:50:29, Simon Gareste wrote: Package: vlc-plugin-vlsub Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Gareste simon.gare...@gmail.com * Package name: vlc-plugin-vlsub Version : 0.9.10 Upstream Author : Guillaume Le Maout

Re: Bug#723019: ITP: squidanalyzer -- Squid proxy native log analyzer and reports generator with full statistics

2013-09-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 15 sep 13, 15:06:22, Jacques Serfontein wrote: Package: squidanalyzer Severity: wishlist URL: http://squidanalyzer.darold.net License: GPL v3 Could you add the long description as well? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Re: Bug#722203: RFP: Kids' Media Player - an audio and video player designed especially for children

2013-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: kmp -- Kid's Media Player - audio and video player designed especially for children Hi Michael, Have you considered packaging it yourself? You can ask for advice and look for a sponsor on http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors Full quote

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 aug 13, 10:18:53, Russ Allbery wrote: Alternately, we could be far more aggressive about removing packages from oldstable, I suppose, but I don't think that's a good idea; that just leaves our users with exactly the sorts of choices that we're trying to avoid. I think it's much

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 iul 13, 08:24:26, Vincent Bernat wrote: For years, Linux had the reputation of having a terribly difficult audio setup and thanks to PulseAudio and its now wide support in applications, this is now behind us. Have you been reading debian-user lately? One of the first

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 iul 13, 11:31:10, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 09:48 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : Have you been reading debian-user lately? One of the first recommendations is still uninstall pulseaudio and see if it works. Having debian-user run by people trying

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 iul 13, 11:49:25, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 20 juillet 2013 08:48 CEST, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com : For years, Linux had the reputation of having a terribly difficult audio setup and thanks to PulseAudio and its now wide support in applications, this is now behind

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 iun 13, 18:56:02, Thomas Koch wrote: I've started by building debian packages with equivs that have dependencies to all packages that I've installed by hand on my old machine.[1] This is not comfortable. I started thinking about a tagging system that allows users to attach

Re: system time has change while installing

2013-06-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 19 iun 13, 17:27:56, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:31 +0100 Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: [...] Storing local time in the hardware clock is utterly wrong for many reasons. The only reason Microsoft have continued to ship Windows configured this

Re: system time has change while installing

2013-06-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 iun 13, 08:50:33, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:47:12AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Why is UTC time bogus? If you set your BIOS clock to show the current time in the UTC time zone, it will confuse people who think the BIOS clock shows the local time on Mars

Re: RFH: two base wheezy bugs

2013-06-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 iun 13, 09:49:41, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, I'm at loss with what to do with #710047. (random freeze since wheezy) More information would be nice, redirect to debian-user? And just closing #708158 (desktop becomes slower once plugged into power) saying you didnt supply more info

Re: default MTA

2013-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 iun 13, 14:11:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If there are no objections within a few days I would like to make some major changes to that page as follows: * the only options left under debate are: - exim (status quo) - postfix - dma - no MTA at all - (did I miss

Re: default MTA

2013-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 mai 13, 03:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? Are there any objections other than but I like it this way!? I just moved the DefaultMTA page to

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 iun 13, 13:58:24, Thomas Goirand wrote: Feel free to contribute it. I would welcome it. I too, feel like its a shame that there's no dialog to choose which desktop you want (even if we have specialized CDs, I prefer the netinst ones, and there, such a dialog would be a very good

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 04 iun 13, 14:06:26, Niels Thykier wrote: [1] We normally filter out certain type of RC bugs (incl. but not limited to license issues), where we consider it unreasonable to demand a resolution within the usual deadline (i.e. 14 days of non-activity + 7 days after a d-d notice). Maybe

Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-06-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 iun 13, 09:57:34, Daniel Hartwig wrote: It doesn't, see http://bugs.debian.org/496068. As no mirror was chosen during the install, none is placed in sources. A default can of course be selected and commented out, provided that such default agrees with the increase in load. It

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 mai 13, 22:33:03, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of iceweasel and icedove in stable-security. Would it be possible to switch to the Mozilla branding in this case? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 mai 13, 15:59:35, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Exim is a listening daemon, even if it listens only on localhost in the default configuration. I'd prefer dma instead. It's better to have a listening daemon on localhost. There's

Re: default MTA

2013-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 mai 13, 17:36:31, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: The no local mail reader installed case is not a common case, since users installing a default desktop will get it. ... but never start it if they think (like so many users now) that e-mail == webmail. I think forwarding root mail

Re: default MTA

2013-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 mai 13, 21:52:04, Marc Haber wrote: Yes. And many systems have intermittent connectivity, which rules out non-queueing mini-MTAs. Exim does the Job pretty well, and people who know what an MTA is will probably install their own anyway, so there is no need to change. Exim is a

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 mai 13, 14:55:46, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:29:42PM -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : Andrei POPESCU wrote: Andreas Beckmann wrote: now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. How about setting default umask

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 mai 13, 10:33:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-05-18 14:55:46 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/umask It says: An umask of 022 gives write permission to the other group members. Is it true? Probably a typo, fixed. Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 14:49:57, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. How about setting default umask for users (uid = 1000) to 002? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions

Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)

2013-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 mai 13, 10:52:05, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:29:11AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Some upstreams have a testing branch of there software and a release branch. It's sometimes useful to have people test the version in from the testing branch, and having it

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 mai 13, 20:31:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The difference between a shell and an init system is that the former is directly exposed to the user while the latter will only be visible to developers and admins most of the time. It makes sense to be able to customize your user

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 mai 13, 23:12:48, Thomas Goirand wrote: Which is very different from being able to select, in d-i, what desktop you want (for example using the netinst CD). This is already possible (from the boot menu). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic

Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)

2013-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 09 mai 13, 20:49:51, Lars Wirzenius wrote: The fundamental change is to start keeping our testing branch as close to releasable as possible, at all times. It's probably obvious for debian-devel readers, but I think it is worth saying it out loud: this would also give us

Bug#707672: general: binary diffs of large packages

2013-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reopen -1 Control: reassign -1 release-notes On Vi, 10 mai 13, 02:43:28, ant wrote: Package: general Severity: wishlist Dear Debian, At the end of a slow line it would still be nice to be able to download only the actual binary differences between versions of a package during

Re: Question about multiarch

2013-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 12:03:15, Walter Valenti wrote: Scenario: a Intel x64 (T5500) with Wheezy i386 installed. It's possible use the multiarch support of dpkg to migrate to Wheezy amd64 ? (after installation of linux-image-amd64, libc6-amd64) This belongs on debian-user, see

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 13, 00:30:00, Ben Hutchings wrote: I assume you're concerned that there may be undeclared build- conflicts. But testing in the maintainer's development system is not a particularly good way to find those. Testing in a maximal environment (everything with priority = optional,

Bug#703946: general: OS freezes, but mouse and ping keeps working

2013-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 26 mar 13, 08:48:19, Undefined User wrote: Good morning. I'm really sorry for not providing enough information, but I'll do my best to reproduce the error and see what happens when using Chromium or Firefox at the same procedure. I didn't test the SSH either, and that's a good

Re: Wheezy testing versus Wheezy release repositories: confused on how to get source code

2013-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 16 ian 13, 16:01:00, Paul Johnson wrote: I installed Wheezy beta 4 from CD and was surprised that compiz window manager was removed. Compiz is the best thing about Linux, that's a shame. I tracked down some explanations, don't want to start a flame war about that decision. But, even

Bug#696848: general: USB flash drive unmount problems (both squeeze/wheezy)

2012-12-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 dec 12, 08:15:20, Eugene wrote: It seems that the cache doesn't appear to be properly finished to be written on the flash drive. Can you reproduce this if you unmount from the commandline? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: Package variant selection policy using meta packages

2012-12-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 dec 12, 13:17:32, Joachim Breitner wrote: Users tend to fall into one of three classes: A. Users that, if they have foo-dev installed, always also want foo-prof installed. B. Users that want to manually decide for what packages they want the -prof package

Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 dec 12, 09:20:25, Willem van den Akker wrote: Hi, I am willing to maintain the packages jabberd2 and udns. I have already uploaded new versions of both packages to mentors.debian.org. http://mentors.debian.net/package/udns http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2 If your

Re: Mplayer not running with user privileges

2012-12-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 dec 12, 16:56:53, magina antimage wrote: Hi, I have ported debian-squeeze on my target x86 board and facing some problem with mplayer. whenever i run mplayer from root privilages it runs fine,but when i run it from user privileges i am getting following error.

Re: Really, ...

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 30 nov 12, 18:03:41, Harald Jenny wrote: Yes a dedicated list (maybe just a temporary one) especially meant for the early adopter/tester of systemd/upstart/OpenRC, preferrable people who are DDs/DMs themselves and can describe/triage problems properly... I don't think this would be a

Re: Really, ...

2012-11-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 30 nov 12, 17:47:20, Harald Jenny wrote: Maybe some sort of mailing list could be dedicated to a discussion about the actual usage of different init system so people may share their experiences? Do you mean some list other than debian-user? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic

Re: Maildir vs. mbox in Debian

2012-11-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 29 nov 12, 11:35:44, Ivan Shmakov wrote: What are the estimates? And wouldn't it be better to use some kind of a specialized search engine if searching is deemed “crucial”? I guess that it may render the difference between the formats somewhat irrelevant.

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